Calculating speech rate with Kideval?

[Julie]

Thanks so much for your help!
-Julie

On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:26:24 PM UTC-4, Spektor, Leonid: CMU wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Different analyses in KIDEVAL require counting words and utterances 
> differently. The "Dur Words" and "Dur Utts" columns show the number of 
> words and utterances counted for time duration analyses. If you have any 
> utterances with no words on them, then the "Total Utts" column will have 
> smaller number of utterances counted than "Dur Utts" column. So, for time 
> duration analyses the empty utterance is still counted. The other DUR 
> columns represent just what you assumed. The "Dur Words" column includes 
> all words on main speaker tier including the words that are marker with 
> [/], [//], [///], [/-], [/?] codes. The only "words" that are excluded from 
> the "Dur Words" count are "0", "0word", "&word",  "xxx", "yyy" and "www".
>
> The bullets will be included is utterance doesn't have any words on it. 
> You can exclude all zero words utterances from the data with this KWAL 
> command:
>
> kwal +x>0w +o% +o@ +d +f *.cha
>
> and then run KIDEVAL on KWAL's output files.
>
>
> Leonid.
>
>
>  
> On Apr 10, 2013, at 17:56 , Julie wrote:
>
> Hello, 
> I am a speech language pathology graduate student at University of 
> Maryland. For my master's thesis, I am looking at voice onset time in 
> speech to infants and to adults. One factor which is known to effect VOT is 
> speech rate, so I am looking for a way to calculate this using a program in 
> Clan. I noticed that when I ran Kideval, the output included columns for 
> "Dur Words", "Dur Utts", "Dur Time (sec)", "Words/Time", and "Utts/Time". I 
> was wondering if anyone could explain what is going into each of these 
> columns, and how they are each being calculated. I am assuming "Dur Time 
> (sec)" is the total time in seconds of all the bullets for a particular 
> tier, and that Words/Time and Utts/Time are just the total number of 
> words/utterances divided by the total time. I cannot figure out was "Dur 
> Words" and "Dur Utts" contains. 
>
> My other concern is that in the transcripts I am using there are often 
> long periods of silence or activity with no talking that have been coded as 
> MOT: 0 [=! silence] or MOT: 0 [=! moving toys], etc. My question is, will 
> these bullets be included in the total duration for the mother? If so, is 
> there a way to exclude them? I would guess maybe the easiest thing to do 
> would be to just change the tier name since I am only concerned with the 
> mother's speech rate. 
>
> If anyone has used kideval for rate calculations before and has any input, 
> I would really appreciate it! 
>
> Thank you, 
> Julie Sampson
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